The Duchess of Padua
Duchess

Duchess

Ay! is it not strange I should so love mine enemy?

Guido

Guido

Who is he?

Duchess

Duchess

Why, you: that with your shaft did pierce my heart! Poor heart, that lived its little lonely life Until it met your arrow.

Guido

Guido

Ah, dear love, I am so wounded by that bolt myself That with untended wounds I lie a-dying, Unless you cure me, dear Physician.

Duchess

Duchess

I would not have you cured; for I am sick With the same malady.

Guido

Guido

Oh, how I love you! See, I must steal the cuckoo’s voice, and tell The one tale over.

Duchess

Duchess


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